Management and assistance
Prof. Dr. Ruth Schilling, Managing Director
Matthias Templin, Commercial Managing Director
Thunes Thiru, Assistant to the Board of Directors
Dr. Angela Sommer, Speaker of Science Administration
Press and Public Relations Office
Dr. Jessica Adolf, Head of Communication
Annica Müllenberg, Content Management
Lisanne Rinke, Events and Fundraising
Laura Bilkau, student
Legal department
Tim Lorenzen, legal advisor
Controlling department
Yvonne Simminger, Senior Controllerin
Program Area I – Shipping and Society
Prof. Dr. Ruth Schilling (Representative: Dr. Katharina Bothe, Scientific Coordinator for Social and Economic Sciences)
Researchers
Name | Status | theme line |
| Mohammad Abu Al Hasan | Scientific Associate | Mediations: Ships and Knowledge |
| Dr. Sven Bergmann | Senior Researcher | Configurations: Ship and environment |
| Anja Binkofski | Doctoral candidate | Configurations: Ship and environment |
| Dr. Katharina Bothe | Research assistant and Deputy Head of Program | Transformations: Ships and People |
| Dr. des. Katrin Kleemann | Post Doc | Mediations: Ships and Knowledge |
Curator | Transformations: Ships and People | |
| Deike Reddig | Doctoral candidate | Transformations: Ships and People |
University lecturer/Head of Research | across all thematic areas | |
| Nils Theinert | Junior Researcher | Transformations: Ships and People |
| Miles Powell | Senior Researcher | Transformations: Ships and People |
Tülin Fidan, Research assistant
Marieke Gottschalk, research assistant
Program Area II – Ships as Stores of Knowledge
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vehlken, Head of Program Area II and Professor of Knowledge Processes and Digital Media at the University of Oldenburg
Department Digitality and Materials Science
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vehlken, Head of Department. Contact: s.vehlken@dsm.museum
Vyacheslav Bondarenko, Doctoral Researcher
Dr. Amandine Colson, Post-Doctoral Researcher
Nicolas Dittgen, Doctoral Researcher
Arman Dzaferagic, Doctoral Researcher
Dr. Lucas Haasis, Senior Researcher
Dennis Hoffmann, 3D Capturing
Luca Junge, 3D Capturing
Inga Kirschnick, Research Associate, subproject “Dialogic AI Systems for Provenance and Collection Research” (DSM, Jade University, Leibniz University Hannover) within the zukunft.niedersachsen research cluster “Digital Provenance and Collection Research (ProSaDi)” at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Dr. Frederic Theis, Scientific Coordinator Materials Science and Deputy Head
Nicole Werner, 2D Imaging and Photography
Research Students: Birsu Akyigit, Hannes Schöler
Department Documentation and Provenance
Dr Antje Schmidt, Head of Department. Contact: a.schmidt@dsm.museum
Felicitas Blanck, Documentation Officer
Anna Gnyp, Research Associate, Collaborative Knowledge Infrastructures
Department Collecting and Preserving
Annika Opitz, Head of Department. Contact: opitz@dsm.museum
Andreas Frelkiewicz, Archival Assistant
Heiko Maischl, Depot Assistant
Joachim Nee, Object Transportation
Silke Wiedmann, Conservator
Thomas Winsemann, Depot Assistant
Affiliated third-party funded projects
Susanne Kiel, Research Associate, Project „Holland-Aktion“ Rotterdam/Lübeck
Jana Schäfer, Research Associate, Project LIFTProv Hamburg
Program Area III – Communication of marine-related sciences
NN, W2 professorship in museum-related science history communication
NN, deputy, scientific coordination of marine and polar research
Dr. Isabella Hodgson, acting director
Dr. Marleen von Bargen, deputy
Rosemarie Brikmanis-Brückner, Cultural participation
Exhibition curation and management
Dr. Marleen von Bargen, scientific curator
Niels Hollmeier, Curator and Project Manager
Education
Birte Stüve, Head
Franziska Schild, Research Assistant and Deputy Head
Christine Bigley, Visitor Services
Tina Krämer, Education
Cornelia Riml, Education
Kristin Schrimpf, Education
Aleksander Solinski, Education
Karim Butt, FSJ
Library
Erik Hoops, research assistant, overall management, head of scientific editing
Bernd Darter, head of library
Simon Kursawe, library assistant
Museum harbour
Nina Nustede, Museum Harbour Management
Jessica Langer, Technical staff member
Wolfgang Barkemeyer, Volunteer staff member
Human Resources and accounting
Stefanie Herz, Head of Human Resources
Britta Steffens, Human Resources Department Employee
Sherasahre Zibuhr, Accounting
IT
Birgit Schindler, Head of IT
Michael Pietsch, Deputy Head of IT
Marius Onken, employee
Hendrik Petrus, employee
Central information
Daniela Wittenberg, Head of Cashier and Supervision
Jan Siedelmann, Purchasing and Head Office Employee
Franz-Eckard Falck, Cashier Employee
Martin Koprowski, Cashier Employee
Tim Struck, Cashier Employee
Construction and property management
Kai Berghorn, Project Manager Construction/Real Estate
Lena Knoop, Workshop Manager, Carpenter
Ismaila Jallow, Carpenter
Thomas Ackenhausen, Craftsman in Technical Services
Cersten Schmedes, Locksmith
Julia Schulte-Fabry, Trainee
Leon Ott, Trainee
Frieda Baumhauer, Trainee
Merle Jäger, Trainee
Henrik Schultze, Trainee
Matthias Böger, Caretaker